($20-$30 Tickets + DICE fees | 6:30pm & 8:30pm Shows) Join multi-instrumentalist Max Goldschmid as he leads the Next Generation Jazz Ensemble through a program of progressive orginal music! Max has hosted our Sunday night jazz jam for years, where he has shared the stage with hundreds of musicians. He has tapped some of his favorites from those jam sessions to play with him for this special concert! Sunday nights are dedicated to jazz standards from the Great American Songbook, but for tonight Max and his bandmates will be presenting original compositions and arrangements! Come support the Next Generation of Jazz!

Featuring Max Goldschmid (horns) Colin McIlrath (guitar) Denali Kauffman (piano) Ryan Magness (bass) & Casey Hadland (drums)

($10-$15 | 10:30pm & 11:30pm Sets) After Friday night’s show, stick around for Late Night with swinging drummer Kenji Lancaster and his band!

($20-$30 + DICE fees | 4pm doors | 4:30pm show) Grown Folks returns to the Century Room stage for a very special concert featuring Alex Brady and a full choir! This show will have Grown Folk’s core trio of musicians: TroyCov on drums, Chris Peña on keys and Joshua ‘The Mad Scientist’ Sailor on bass plus Gospel Choir.

($5-$10 + DICE fees | 6:30pm-9:30pm) Come sit in with multi-instrumentalist Max Goldschmid and the Century Room house band! Band opens up with a short set followed by an instrumental jam until 9:30pm. Musicians who sit in get in free!

($15-$25 tickets + DICE fees | 6:30pm & 8pm sets) Inspired by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, the 17-piece Century Jazz Orchestra performs every Monday night at the Century Room starting at 6:30pm. Expect music from the Count Basie Orchestra, Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Thad Jones/Mel Louis Jazz Orchestra, plus classics from Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and much more! An intergenerational ensemble, the CJO fosters community with students, teachers and professionals performing alongside each other and is supported by the Sonora Arts & Music Initiative 501(c)3. Come relive the magic of the big band era every Monday as the CJO keeps the music alive and thriving in the 21st Century!

Some of the musicians you can expect to see on Mondays:

Arthur Vint, Pete Swan, Kenji Lancaster, Fred Hayes (drums) Colin McIlrath, Scott Black (bass) Angelo Versace, Chris Peña, Peter Saxe (piano) Matt Mitchell (guitar) Tim Buechler (bari sax) Kevin Ravellette, Simeon Roth, Dave Long (tenor sax) Eric Nakanishi, Joseph Rader (alto sax) Jordan Robison, Joshua Schanie, Benjamin Constantinides, Aidan Schofield (trombone) Morani Sanders, Addit Smith, Anthony Gibes, Tony Belletti, Jibrael Alsooz, Jason Carder (trumpet).

($25-$35 + taxes and fees | 6:30pm show) In one of Tucson’s most intimate venues, experience the rawness and authenticity flamenco has to offer on the Century Room Stage with special guest La Checha!

***Gretchen Williams (“La Checha”) is a former soloist with Yjastros the American Flamenco Repertory Company, now holding a doctorate in early modern Spanish history. Her dissertation covers the Romani blacksmithing community of 16th and 17th century Triana. A Fulbright scholar, she has taught Spanish, history, and flamenco at Texas Tech University and the University of New Mexico, and studies flamenco with renowned artists. She performs at tablaos in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Atlanta.***

***Angelina Ramirez is a flamenco movement artist and teaching artist based in Tucson, Arizona. Her work explores queer, Latinx identity in traditional flamenco dance and focuses on arts and healing, particularly for elders and autistic individuals. She promotes accessibility, fights ableism and racism, and curates the Traditional and Ethnic Dance Festival for the Southwest Folklife Alliance.***

***Misael Barraza Diaz is a distinguished Mexican guitarist who graduated with honors from the Master in Guitar Alicante and obtained a second Master’s degree from the University of Arizona. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts and studies under renowned artists such as David Russell, Sergio Assad, and Odair Assad.***

***With***

***Jason Martinez (cajon)***

($10-$15 + taxes & fees | 6:30pm & 8pm Sets) Multi-instrumentalist Marco Rosano leads Marco & The Polos through a swingin’ night of traditional jazz every other Wednesday!

“Hot Jazz Wednesdays” take you back to the roots of jazz with music from the 1920s and ’30s. Every 1st, 3rd & 5th Wednesday, Marco & The Polos perform music from New Orleans. 2nd and 4th Wednesdays are reserved for the Hot Club of Tucson, which performs French Jazz Manouche in the style of Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli.

($10-$20 tickets + taxes and fees | 6:30pm show) Keyboardist Denali Hershey Kauffman and drummer Kenji Lancaster form a boundary-pushing jazz/fusion duo that blurs the lines between improvisation, groove, and electronic experimentation. The band draws inspiration from other genre-bending collaberative keyboard/drum duos like Mehliana (Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana) and DOMi & JD Beck. Expect spontaneous improvisation, chopped-up beats and ethereal textures.

($10-$15 Tickets + DICE fees | 8:30pm-10:30pm) Come to the Century Room every Thursday at 8:30pm for our Soul Jazz Lounge! Each lounge hosts a rotating cast of All-Star house bands and features our Viscount Legend Soul Organ designed by the late great Joey DeFrancesco, complete with the Leslie Speaker. The Viscount Soul organ is a modern recreation of vintage Hammond B3 instruments, which were made famous by jazz organists like Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Larry Young, Brother Jack McDuff & Dr. Lonnie Smith. The Century Room’s Viscount Legend Soul is provided courtesy of the Tucson Jazz Music Foundation.

This week features Doc Holladay & SOUL ORGANization bringing boogaloo, funk, soul and more!